Friday, 13 November 2009

Saying sorry

For the limited (i.e., no) people who miss this blog, for the long silence, I apologise. But, brilliantly, not as much as the Sun has had to apologise for misspelling the name of Jacqui Janes on their website.

On this affair, they've behaved disgracefully, manipulatively and unfairly on the whole issue. While I share their general scepticism of the dregs of the Labour regime, picking up the outrage of a grieving mother to attack the Prime Minister on this is wrong. He had written a letter personally; he did make time to speak in person to the Ms Janes. There (and even before) it should have rested, given it is over a simple spelling mistake - unfortunate yes, but not a scandal.

This should teach them to refrain in future, but sadly, of course, it will almost certainly affect them only trivially. But we can hope.

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